Salman is accused of obstruction of justice and 2 other unknown charges

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Updated: 1:35 PM CST Jan 16, 2017

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WEBVTT MICHELLE: BREAKING NEWS THISNOON.A NEW REPORT INDICATES PULSESHOOTER OMAR MATEEN'S WIFE HASBEEN ARRESTED.I'M MICHELLE IMPERATO.JAZMIN: AND I'M JAZMIN BAILEY,THIS BROKE JUST MOMENTS AGO.WE WANT TO GET TO AMANDA OBER INTHE BREAKING NEWS CENTERAMANDA ACCORDING TO THE NEW YORK: TIMES, NOOR SALMAN, THE WIFEOF THE PULSE NIGHTCLUB SHOOTEROMAR MATEEN, HAS BEEN ARRESTEDIN CONNECTION WITH THE PULSENIGHTCLUB SHOOTING.THE PUBLISHED REPORT QUOTES LAWENFORCEMENT SOURCES AS SAYINGSHE WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY BYFBI AGENTS AT HER HOME OUTSIDEOF SAN FRANCISCO.PROSECUTORS HAD BEEN WEIGHINGCHARGES AGAINST HER IN THEAFTERMATH OF THE ATTACK.AN UNIDENTIFIED SOURCE FAMILIARWITH DETAILS OF THE ARREST SAIDSALMAN WAS CHARGED WITHOBSTRUCTION.SALMAN'S HUSBAND, OMAR MATEEN,WAS KILLED IN A SHOOTOUT WITHPOLICE DURING THE RAMPAGE ATPULSE LAST JUNE -- INVESTIGATORSINTERVIEWED HER FOR HOURS AFTERTHE ATTACK AND CAME TO BELIEVESHE WAS NOT TELLING THE TRUTHABOUT MATEEN'S PLANS TO CARRYOUT THE RAMPAGE.THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS STORYAND WE'LL HAVE MUCH MORE TONIGHTON WESH 2 NEWS STARTING AT 4 ANDALSO THROUGHOUT THE DAY ONWESH.COM.LIVE IN THE NEWSROOM, AMANDA

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Updated: 1:35 PM CST Jan 16, 2017

SAN FRANCISCO —

Noor Salman, wife of the Pulse nightclub shooter, will face federal charges filed in Florida's Middle District. Salman is being charged with obstruction of justice and aiding and abetting her husband's support to ISIS, a law official said.

Police believe Salman's behavior wasn't forced by her husband and acted on her own free will. One official said evidence shows the widow was complicit and was aware her husband was going to commit a crime.

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Omar Mateen was shot and killed after he opened fire at Pulse in the early morning hours of June 12, 2016.

Forty-nine people were killed in the massacre.

Body camera video was released from Orange County deputies on the night of the Pulse nightclub shooting in November.

The video captured the incredible danger and uncertainty deputies faced as they were inside the club desperately trying to help victims while also aware that an active shooter remained inside.

Authorities say suspect Omar Mateen walked into the club right before closing time, carrying an assault rifle and spraying the helpless crowd with bullets. Witnesses said he fired relentlessly — 20 rounds, 40, then 50 and more. In such tight quarters, the bullets could hardly miss. He shot at police. He took hostages.

When the gunfire finally stopped, 50 people were dead and dozens more were critically wounded in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Mateen, who law enforcement officials said had pledged allegiance to Islamic State in a 911 call around the time of the attack, died in a gun battle with SWAT team members.

Authorities immediately began investigating whether the assault was an act of terrorism and probing the background of Mateen, a 29-year-old American citizen from Fort Pierce, Florida, who had worked as a security guard. The gunman's father recalled that his son recently got angry when he saw two men kissing in Miami and said that might be related to the assault.

Thirty-nine of the dead were killed at the club, and 11 people died at hospitals.